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    Follow the latest Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) news

    More information: HOYS TV listings | Buy HOYS tickets | Where to stay during HOYS | 2026 HOYS qualifiers

    • Davina Johnson smiles widely at the camera wearing her winners rosettes on her jacket standing beside her Exmoor pony Stowbrook Red Kite in the backstage area at HOYS 2025.

      Exmoor pony, 17, lifts HOYS title having been nursed back to health by owner after spending a week in intensive care

    • Five-star event rider returns from serious injuries to delight on HOYS debut: ‘I’ve definitely got the showjumping bug’

    • Grey cob cantering in the show ring

      *Live* All the HOYS showing news as it happens

    • Mini champion Derw Dream Boy stood HOYS supreme pony last year. The HOYS 2025 supreme judge will be Lisha Leeman.

      ‘Being trusted to assess the country’s best horses is a privilege I never take lightly’: meet HOYS supreme judge Lisha Leeman

    • A 128cm bay show pony trots around the main arena at Horse of the Year Show.

      Gill Thompson: ‘As stressful as HOYS can be, try your best to enjoy the occasion’

    • ‘A blur of tears’: riders lose HOYS tickets when hats fall off at a standstill

    • H&H’s showing editor Bethan Simons and her dun section D Ballynacoy Prince competing in the M&M championship at HOYS in 2017; she shares what you need to know if you are competing at HOYS for the first time.

      Competing at HOYS for the first time? Here’s what you really need to know from someone who’s been in your shoes

    • Thistledown Van Der Vaart is mini M&M champion in 2017. This year the championship is judged by HOYS M&M mini and workers judge Erik Mackechnie-Guire.

      ‘No fat ponies will be getting top marks from me’: meet HOYS mountain and moorland mini and working hunter judge Erik Mackechnie-Guire

    • ‘A reminder of the joy of our sport’: horse bought as £1,000 project from the field qualifies for Foxhunter final

    • Heniarth Stud breeders Richard Miller and Meirion Davies

      6 keys to breeding HOYS superstar ponies, according to history-making Heniarth Stud

    • The dedication, joy and magic of HOYS to be shown on free-to-view television

    • 2024 HOYS supreme horse of the year

      ‘Passion, dedication and expertise’ as 2025 HOYS supreme judges confirmed

    • Rafeekah, being ridden by Kimberley Bates, to win the Purebred Arab of the Year, judged this time by 2025 HOYS judge David Bennett

      ‘I want everything to look easy and effortless’: meet 2025 HOYS judge David Bennett 

    • Olympic gold medallist Tom McEwen claims first ever HOYS showjumping ticket with Kilcannon Mischeif.

      Olympic gold medallist claims first ever HOYS ticket: ‘We were eventing down the road’

    • HOYS tickets Anyone competing at Horse of the Year Show wants to take home a HOYS winners’ rug

      Get your Horse of the Year Show 2025 tickets

    • Jessica Renshaw-smith riding WYCROFT NEW DIMENSION owned by M.A. Mackay, Champion in the Show Hunter Pony of the Year Championship Final during HOYS in the NEC in Warwickshire in the UK on 9th October 2016

      Where to stay during your visit to HOYS

    • Michaela Scott canters around the HOYS arena on Eddie G Z who is wearing the HOYS Foxhunter winners rug.

      Rowland Fernyhough: ‘HOYS showjumping classes and qualifiers need to change’

    • Jane Ross at The Al Shira'aa Hickstead Derby Meeting with Twinshock Warrior in 2022.

      ‘We will never, ever get another. He was the gift that kept on giving’: farewell to prolific show hunter

    • Heads of hunters lined up waiting to be judged at a county show

      Rebecca Penny: ‘Changes and challenges ahead for the showing world’

    • An American miniature horse being stood up for the judge.

      Interested in showing an American Miniature Horse, but don't know where to start? We’re here to help...

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